Ecuador 1946 sucre

from the Mountain Groan Collection

After a period of striking reales, pesos and escudos which must be regarded as failure, Ecuador ceased minting coins in 1862. In 1884, the government tried again, this time with coinage produced on contract by the Heaton mint in Birmingham, England. A new currency conforming to the Latin Monetary Union was introduced, the sucre, with its division the centavo. By 1959 successive devaluations had reduced the sucre from 25 grams of silver to copper-nickel. This sucre was struck 1946 only but is common. The last sucre was struck in 1992; today Ecuador uses United States coins.

Recorded mintage: 18,000,000.

Specification: nickel, 25.9 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 78.2.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1934 sucre
• 1946 20 centavos
• 1959 20 centavos
• 1979 sucre
• 1985 50 centavos
• Coins and currency dated 1946
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